Thursday, March 06, 2008

Today was Ethan's first day of preschool. Early intervention thought it was a good idea and it already seems to be.

The first day went off without a hitch. Marc brought him to school and stayed there a few minutes. When he went to leave and he told Ethan goodbye Mr. E decided that meant that they were both leaving and ran to the door and said "bye bye" to the class. Marc told him that he needed to stay and that daddy was going bye bye but would be back very soon. E looked a bit deflated but was easily soothed by the teacher intervening with a Elmo Mr. Potato Head (love that Elma :) Marc slipped out and came home to tell me the good news. The teacher called about an hour later to ask us a question and told us that Ethan was doing very well.

Marc went back to get him and when he got to the classroom to pick him up at noon the children were having a musical parade. He looked to see where Mr. E was and he was happily bringing up the rear while munching away on a bag of chips that he had found on the teachers desk...too funny!! I guess he was the percussion with his munching. When Katie walked into the classroom which is her classroom on Mon, Wed and Friday the kids looked quite surprised to see her. They were probably wondering why she wasn't there and why was her brother there?!? I was also a bit concerned that maybe she would be unhappy that Ethan gets to go on the days that she does not go. That was not the case at all. As a matter of fact, the only issue that arose when they went to pick Ethan up was that Katie wanted one of Ethan's chips. As Marc said, she had no problem sharing her classmates as long as Ethan shared his chips with her. That is our foodie daughter...ha!!

Ethan came home with two art projects that he completed and the teacher stated that he really spoke to them quite a bit.

THE WEINSTOCKS E AND K RULE THE SCHOOL. MR E FOUND THE AFFIKOMAN ( TEACHERS POTATOE CHIPS). Go ETHANS. CAN YOU IMAGINE WHEN BOTH KATIE AND ETHAN ARE IN THE SAME CLASS. MATZOL TOV ETHANS. NOW LORI AND MARC MUST MAKE A SIZABE DONATION INTO THE RABBI'S PISKA.LOVEuncle howard

Stress is the New Black

We are Lori and Marc; Two 50 something parents of Justin (28) an attorney married to Judy a teacher, Katie Starr (7) and Ethan (7), our virtual twins adopted from the Peoples Republic of China. Having virtual twins is very interesting to put it mildly. Yeah, we are a little stressed out but we do have loads of fun as well. Come and visit us from time to time to get a taste of the madness.